EducationB.S., University of Wisconsin–Madison, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, 2004Ph.D., University of Maryland–College Park, Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, 2007Postdoctoral Fellow, LDEO of Columbia University, Ocean & Climate Physics, 2008–2009Research InterestsMy research aims to understand the dynamics of the tropical ocean and atmosphere as a coupled system, its interaction with ecosystems and with higher latitude regions, how and why the climate system has changed in the past, and how climate will continue to change in the future–both naturally and as driven by human activities.